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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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